... determined to force the community to recognize his academic achievements. He demonstrated his intelligents at an early age. He graduated from high school at age 16, the valedictorian and only black in his graduating class of 12. He was orphaned shortly after his graduation and was forced to pay for his own college education. He won a scholarship to Fisk University in ... increasing frequency of lynching, calling each racially motivated killing a scar upon his soul. Through these and other encounters with racial hatred, as well as through his experience teaching in poor black communities...

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... killing "a scar" upon his soul. Through these and other encounters with racial hatred, as well as through his experience teaching in poor black communities in Tennessee during the summers, Du Bois began to develop his racial consciousness and the desire to help improve conditions for all blacks. ... urban blacks in Philadelphia in 1896 and 1897. The results were published in The Philadelphia Negro in 1899, the first sociological text on a black community published in the United States. After he became a professor of economics and history at Atlanta University in 1897, Du Bois initiated a...

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... Bois began earning his title as the father of American sociology. His first work The Philadelphia Negro was constructed from several interviews he had conducted. In 1903 The Souls of Black Folk became another work published attempting to examine the cultural and political psychology of the African American Diaspora. Du Bois" strong political views and indifferences on obtaining full equality for ... leaders from Africa. Shortly after the Great Depression Du Bois" radical views greatly differ from those of his colleagues which in turn causes his dismissal from editor of The Crisis. Black...

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... attributed to saying, "more and more, we must learn to think not in terms of race or color, or language, or religion, or political boundaries, but in terms of humanity" (Black Americans of Achievement Video Collection 1992). As Booker T. Washington's notoriety faded, W.E.B. Du Bois arose. W.E.B Du Bois was Booker T. Washington's biggest critic. Du Bois earned his Ph.D. in history from Harvard ... ...

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